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SHEPHERD 
MEMORIAL 



The Unveiling of a Statue 

to the 

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in front of the District Building 

Washington, D. C. 

May 3, 1 909 




Edited by 

WILLIAM VAN ZANDT COX 

for, the 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page 

Order of Exercises 4 



Introduction 



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Invocation by Rev. Dr. Wallace Radcliffe 11 

Address by Chairman Theodore W. Noyes 13 

Address by Mr. William F. Mattingly 23 

Presentation of Statue by Mr. Brainard H. Warner 37 

Acceptance by Commissioner Macfarland 39 

Benediction by Right Rev. Alfred Harding 44 

Shepherd Memorial Committee 45 

Contributors to the Shepherd Memorial Fund 47 

Financial Statement 51 



ORDER OF EXERCISES 



Assembly 

Trumpeter, United States Marine Band 

Music— "America" 

United States Marine Band 

Invocation 

Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, D. D., LL. D. 

A Tribute— "Shepherd and the New Washington" 
Theodore W. Noyes 
Chairman Shepherd Memorial Committee, Presiding 

Music— "Some Day" — Wellings 

United States Marine Band 
Obligato by Arthur S. Whitcomb 

Address— "Shepherd and His Times" 

William F. Mattingly 

Unveiling of Statue 

By Alexander Robey Shepherd, 3d 

Salute 

First Battery Field Artillery, District of Columbia Militia 

Music— "The Star-Spangled Banner" 

United States Marine Band 

Presentation of Statue to the District of Columbia 
Brainard H. Warner 
Chairman Shepherd Memorial Finance Committee 

Acceptance of Statue 

Henry B. F. Macfarland 
President Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia 

Presentation of the Sculptor, U. S. J. Dunbar 

Music— March, "Gate City"— Weldon 

United States Marine Band 

Benediction 

Right Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop of Washington 



Music under the direction of Lieut. W. H. Santelmann 




ALEXANDER R SHEPHERD 



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Born in the city of Washington, January 31, 1835. 

At the age of 17 was apprenticed to the trade of 
plumber. 

In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, volun- 
teered with the National Rifles for three 
months' service. 

Elected a member of the Common Council of 
Washington City in 1861 and made Presi- 
dent of that body. 

In 1867 he became a member of the Levy Court. 

In 1870 he was elected to the Board of Aldermen. 

In 1871 was appointed Vice-President, Board of 
Public Works. 

In 1873 was appointed Governor of the District of 
Columbia. 

He died in Batopilas, Mexico, September 12, 1902. 

His funeral took place in Washington, May 4, 1903. 

Interment, Rock Creek Cemetery. 



Sntrobuctton. 



Alexander R. Shepherd, Governor of the District of 
Columbia, 1873-4, died in Batopilas, State of Chihuahua, 
Mexico, on September 12, 1902. 

Scarcely had the unexpected news reached Washing- 
ton when his friends, who for years had advocated some 
tangible recognition of Governor Shepherd's heroic 
services for the National Capital, agreed that a memorial 
should be erected worthy of the man of brilliant results. 

The Honorable Henry B. F. Macfarland, President of the 
Board of Commissioners, D. C, on September 13th, 
suggested to his associates that a statue be erected by 
popular subscription to the memory of Governor Shep- 
herd in the City of Washington. 

The suggestion was approved, and the Commissioners 
appointed an Executive Committee, of which Mr. Crosby 
S. Noyes was chairman, with full power to increase mem- 
bership, raise funds, select design, and do whatever was 
necessary for the erection of a memorial. 

The other members of the Executive Committee were 
John F. Wilkins, Frank A. Munsey, Thomas W. Smith, 
President of the Washington Board of Trade, and Will- 
iam F. Gucle, President of the Business Men's Association. 

The full committee met on September 18th and com- 
pleted its organization by selecting Mr. Wilkins as Vice- 
chairman, Charles J. Bell, Treasurer, and Franklin T. 
Howe, Secretary. 

A few days later Chairman Noyes announced the 



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Finance Committee, with Brainard II. Warner as Chair- 
man, and William V. Cox, Vice-Chairman. This impor- 
tant committee organized without delay, the members 
performed their duties promptly, the public, showing their 
appreciation for the beginning of greater Washington, 
responded generously, and sufficient funds were sub- 
scribed for the memorial before the remains of Governor 
Shepherd were brought back from Mexico to the city of 
his birth. 

A committee composed of Samuel H. Kauffmann, 
James E. Fitch, W. P. Van Wickle, B. H. Warner, C. J. 
Bell, C. S. Noyes, and W. V. Cox, to select the design 
and superintend the erection of a monument was ap- 
pointed. 

A number of America's foremost sculptors were invited 
to compete for the work. 

Nine designs were submitted. That of Mr. U. S. J. 
Dunbar, a local sculptor, was unanimously chosen by the 
committee. The pedestal was awarded to the Van Am- 
ringe Granite Company, of Boston. 

The new District Building at Pennsylvania Avenue 
and Fourteenth Street, in the reservation of which the 
statue was to stand, being unfinished, its erection was 
postponed until May 3, 1909. 

Mr. Frederick D. Owen was selected to take general 
charge, under the Committee of Arrangements, of the 
unveiling ceremonies. The location for the monument, 
with a background of beautiful buildings, made a pleas- 
ing and artistic arrangement possible. 

Governor Shepherd being a city builder; the keynote 
of the design was the arrangement of a section to 
resemble the streets and blocks of a city. 

Around the sections, five in number, and the speakers' 
stand a hand rail was placed which, at proper spacings, 
carried forty-five flag poles, painted pure white, and 
carrying halyards and an American flag for each State in 
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Between these poles were long loops of laurel 
garlands, which encircled the entire arrangement of 
seats, thereby forming, with the flags and the railing, 
a complete court, accommodating 1,200 seats. Upon 
each of the poles was also hung a laurel wreath 
which added much value to the artistic arrangement. 

The decorations of the stand were simple, unique, and 
appropriate, being the emblazonments of the national 
colors, laurel wreaths and garlands, together with several 
United States shields. As a base, the stand was draped 
in white, which made the combination of colors most 
attractive. 

The unveiling of the statue proper was likewise new 
and attractive; two United States Post flags were 
used in the ceremony, completely draping the 
statue, so that when Master Alexander R. Shepherd, 3d, 
drew the silken cord, which removed a small miniature 
saber from a love knot of ribbon, which encircled the 
flags and statue, and the top releasing cords, the folds 
immediately fell away from the bronze figure. The flags 
supported by white cords from a steel wire stretched 
directly overhead, were raised by four members of the 
High School Cadets, slowly but gracefully, while the 
band played the national anthem, and a battery fired a 
salute, the people standing bareheaded until the flags 
reached the top, where they floated out on the breeze 
during the remainder of the ceremony. 

Every detail of the program was successfully carried 
out as planned. 

Around the statue were gathered practically every 
person of local prominence and many who have national 
renown. There were representatives of the National 
Government, the Speaker of the House of Representa- 
tives, United States senators and representatives, the 
Secretary of the Treasury and others high in national 
administrative circles. There were the Commissioners 



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of the District and other officials of the Government at 
the head of which once stood the man to whom they 
were met to pay tribute. There were representatives of 
every civic organization in the National Capital — men 
who are carrying forward the plans for a Greater Wash- 
ington, first practically wrought out by Governor Shep- 
herd. There were officers of the National ( ruard, survivors 
of the National Rifles, and hundreds of others who, by 
their presence, simply desired to pay their respect to 
the man who was the master-builder of the city whose 
beauties and comforts they now enjoy. 

On the speakers' stand, besides those who took part 
in the ceremonies, were the members of the family of the 
man whose memory was honored. That party included 
Mrs. Alexander Robey Shepherd, widow of the late 
Governor; Mrs. Edward A. Quintard and her four chil- 
dren, Mrs. and Miss Brodie, Dr. and Mrs. Merchant, Mrs. 
Wagner and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Shepherd, 
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Shepherd, Alexander R. Shepherd, 
3d; Mrs. C. F. Coe of New York, and Mr., Mrs. and Miss 
Stevens of New York. 

Besides the members of the Shepherd family and the 
speakers, those assigned seats on the main stand were 
Speaker Cannon, Secretary of the Treasury MacYeagh, 
Col. Spencer Cosby, Commissioner Henry L. West, Engi- 
neer Commissioner William Y. Judson, Justice Job Bar- 
nard, Chief Justice H. M. Clabaugh, Senator N. B. Scott, 
Senator E. J. Burkett, Senator R.J. Gamble, Representa- 
tive J. W. Keifer, Representative H. II. Bingham, Repre- 
sentative Wyatt Aiken, SenatorD. N.Fletcher, Representa- 
tive George F.Huff, Col. M.M.Parker, Col.GeorgeTruesdell, 
Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General P. Y. De Graw, Dr. 
William Tindall, President J. H. Small of the Board of 
Trade, President W. F. Gude of the Chamber of Commerce, 
Justice W. P. Stafford, Senator Wet more, Representative 
J. K.Mann, and ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster. 



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It was a matter of profound regret to the members of 
the committees that the First Chairman, Mr. Crosby S. 
Noyes; the Chairman of the Committee on Design, Mr. 
Samuel H. Kauffmann, and the First Secretary, Dr. Frank- 
lin T. Howe, were not permitted to see the completion and 
dedication of the monument for which they worked so 
zealously. 

After a couple of musical selections by the United 
States Marine Band, under the leadership of Lieut. 
William H. Santelmann, the formal ceremonies were be 
gun by the sounding of "Assembly." The band then 
played "America," and the large assemblage arose. At 
the conclusion of the piece, while the audience remained 
standing, Rev. Dr. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of the New 
York Avenue Presbyterian Church, which Governor Shep- 
herd and his family attended when residents of this 
city, pronounced the invocation — 

"Almighty God, except Thou build the house they 
labor in vain that build it; except Thou keep the city 
the watchman waiteth but in vain. We bless Thee for 
this city, the heritage of Thy favor, wherein the little 
one hath become a thousand and the small one a great 
nation. Thy hand hath been our minister. Thy wisdom 
our guide, Thy love our sustenance, Thy power our 
shield and buckler. 

"Thou hast made us citizens of no mean city. For its 
beauty, healthfulness and comfort, for its people and its 
homes, for its schools and colleges and churches, for its 
manifold ministries of charities and culture, for the suc- 
cess of its business, the joy of its pleasures, and the 
sanctity of its worship, for its history and manifold in- 
fluences of patriotism, good citizenship, and national 
life, we render Thee our humble and hearty thanks. We 
bless Thee for the succession of able and devoted men 



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through whom Thou hast in the past years brought lead- 
ership and advancement and honor to our community. 
Especially do we today make mention of Thy grace in 
the gift of Thy servant, Alexander Robey Shepherd, 
whom Thou didst bring into the kingdom for such a 
time as this. We bless Thee for his prophetic vision and 
heroic energy, for his indomitable will and patriotic per- 
sistence, even for the painful struggles and misunder- 
standings and confusions of those early days, and for 
the life spared unto the other days of recognition and 
honor. Today in this service we bring glad tribute of 
appreciation and gratitude. May this statute be pre- 
served in Thy providence to stand in perpetual history 
and prophecy to this people. 

"We invoke Thy benediction upon his household. May 
his memory be a cherished joy and inspiration. Speak to 
all their hearts the comforts and consolations of Thy 
Spirit that are neither few nor small in Jesus Christ, 
the Resurrection and the Life. Make our citizenship 
faithful to the inheritance of his work, and example. Do 
good in Thy good pleasure unto this Zion. Peace be 
within her walls and prosperity within her palaces. Let 
pure and undefiled religion prevail. Make her walls sal- 
vation and her gates praise. Make those who rule over 
us to be just, ruling in the fear of God, that judgments 
may run down like a river and righteousness like a 
mighty stream. Rebuke iniquity in high places. Make it 
appear that Thou standest in the congregation of the 
mighty and judgest among the princes. Defend the poor 
and fatherless. Give bread to the hungry and justice to 
the afflicted and needy. Promote our industries. Fill our 
homes with the voice of joy and melody. Here enthrone 
Thy word. And may the voice of the Lord cry contin- 
ually unto the city. 

"Bless William Howard Taft, President of the United 
States, and all in authority, and so replenish them with 
Thy Spirit that their words and service may make this 
capital a fountain from whence shall flow the glad 
streams that shall make our land the city of righteous- 
ness, the holy place of the Most High. For Thy name's 
sake. Amen." 



A TRIBUTE BY 



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Theodore W. Noyes, Chairman of the Shepherd Me- 
morial Committee, presiding, spoke of Shepherd and the 
New Washington as follows: 

Only an associate of Shepherd who stood by his side 
in his years of fierce struggle can picture the man whom 
we honor today with those personal, intimate, charac- 
teristic touches which make the perfect portrait. 

Many men of the New Washington, for whom I speak, 
may never have seen Shepherd — not even in the home- 
comings of 1887 and 1895, when apparently all Washing- 
ton turned out to greet him. Our impression of his great 
personality may spring from perusal of the pages of 
municipal history or from the fireside tales concerning 
him told by our fathers or others of the local patriarchs. 
For example, my own conception of his character, his 
controlling motive, his true greatness, is derived largely 
(though not entirely) from my father, who knew his 
inmost thoughts and plans, and who as a firm friend and a 
loyal Washingtonian fought for him and with him for 
Washington. 

We of the younger generation can therefore portray 
Shepherd only in the broadest outlines, appreciating and 
emphasizing those traits in his make-up which stand out 
strikingly conspicuous and which impress themselves 
indelibly upon the observer. 

Shepherd as determined force personified and Shep- 
herd as in devoted loyalty the great and typical Wash- 
ingtonian will live forever, humanly speaking, in the 

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minds of the men of Washington, as his physical aspect 
will he perpetuated by this monument of bronze and 
granite. 

The rugged lines of face and head and figure faithfully 
portrayed in this statue suggest (what his whole life 
confirms) the man of power, of abnormal strength and 
energy, of elemental dominating force. In his name the 
characteristic emphasis is upon Alexander, the con- 
queror, and not upon the Shepherd. He was no gentle 
shepherd, as sung by the Roman poet, reclining in the 
shade of the wide-spreading beech and feeding milk to 
lambs, but he was a warrior shepherd of the type of 
David of old, full of concentrated nervous energy, a man 
who makes and overcomes enemies, a man who delights 
to beat down obstacles — action incarnate, power per- 
sonified. 

His labor of Hercules in Washington was the appar- 
ently impossible task of reconstructing the city phys- 
ically and of revolutionizing its relations to the National 
Government against the active opposition of a host of 
powerful enemies and against the fearful negative force 
of inertia, local and national. His labor of Hercules in 
Mexico was to overcome the forces of nature, to remove 
mountains and to extract from them their treasure. Hut, 
as a test in measuring his strength, the form which his 
labors took is immaterial. He is of the type of the men 
of elemental force of all ages, who centuries apart and 
in widely varying environment have stamped the same 
imprint of personal power upon the world's records. 
Strip these men of what is merely external and non- 
essential, and the bedrock foundation is the same in all. 
They are the men of granite, the type of inflexible will 
and unconquerable spirit ; men who are masters in any 
emergency, against whom every force of opposition, 
however strong and unexpected, dashes itself harmlessly. 



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The modern title of the master man is "Boss." Our 
"Boss" Shepherd is peculiar among modern bosses in 
that the motive of his bossship was not mercenary self- 
seeking, but public spirit, civic pride, the wholesome 
ambition to promote the welfare of his native city. He 
was, however, undeniably "boss" in that his indomitable 
spirit was master of the situation in every emergency. 

Shepherd will also live in local history as the type of 
the loyal Washingtonian; and, through this intense 
loyalty, as the master-builder of the Greater Washington. 

Shepherd's ambition, his controlling, absorbing pur- 
pose, was to raise his native city from the dust and to 
place it in the position of honor to which as the National 
Capital it was entitled. He burned with indignation at 
the sneers aimed by foreigners and other visitors at the 
despised capital at a time when, through the repudia- 
tion of national obligations and through the limitation 
of cramped local resources and ideas, the city was a 
national reproach. He saw the scanty population of 
Washington's half dozen straggling, wrangling villages 
staggering unaided under the burden of capital-making, 
broken down in the effort, helpless, hopeless. He saw 
the nation, which had in the beginning undertaken this 
task and then abandoned it to the feeble local popula- 
tion, watching with indifference the latter's struggle and 
paralyzing local development by holding constantly over 
the city's head the threat of capital removal. He recog- 
nized the only means of revolutionizing these conditions, 
and he had the courage and the will to adopt this means 
and to follow it unflinchingly to success. The city was 
hemmed in, its development was checked, access to its 
heritage of national affection and pride was denied by 
obstructing walls built high through local shortsighted- 
ness and congressional neglect. Shepherd became a 
mighty battering ram leveled at these obstructions. In 



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thf crash of the collision this engine was for a time over- 
turned and broken, but its work was done. The obstruct- 
ing walls went down forever. They can never rise again. 

In every atom of his make-up Shepherd was distinctly 
Washingtonian. Born in the National Capital, he gave 
the best of himself and of his powers to restore its birth- 
right of beauty and honor and prosperity; he loved it, 
fought for it, sacrificed and suffered for it; he compelled 
t he \al ion to recognize and in part to fulfil its obligat ions 
to the Nation's city; he rendered impossible capital re- 
moval, and finally Washington has developed through 
the Shepherd-given impetus into the wonderfully attrac- 
tive capital of today of which the whole American 
Nation is proud. 

The men of the New Washington, whom I represent, 
can in no other way more greatly honor Shepherd than 
by catching the inspiration of his unselfish loyalty to 
his native city, his inflexible and irresistible determination 
to substitute honor for contempt in the world's opinion 
of that city, and by applying this force to the removal 
of present obstructions in Washington's path and to the 
upbuilding of the future capital. Shepherd's inspiring 
name and memory sound a trumpet call to arms to all 
Washingtonians. We may not emulate him as the man 
of elemental force — that strength is God-given; but we 
can each of us in his own way and according to his power 
emulate him as the typical loyal Washingtonian, right- 
ously indignant over the city's wrongs, bat t ling ever 
for its lights and the rights of its people, and in this 
war, filled not, merely with the conventional public 
spirit of enlightened selfishness, but with Shepherd's 
spirit of devotion which drove him irresistibly forward 
as the city's champion, sweeping aside all obstacles, 
careless of what happened to himself or to others if only 
the victory for Washington might be won. 

The New Washington, like the old, needs a Shepherd 



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or a revival of the Shepherd spirit. Through fair play- 
by Congress, local cooperation and an honest and effi- 
cient municipal government much has been gained; but 
a vast deal remains to be accomplished. 

There is another Shepherd's task in the systematic 
adornment of the capital, in the development of the city's 
park system on the wisest lines, in mastering the Potomac 
and utilizing it to its full capacity for the benefit of the 
health, trade, and business prosperity of Washington. 
The capital as an educational center, as the seat of a 
great university, must be developed until it binds to 
itself with college ties and links of patriotic pride the 
affectionate interest of innumerable representatives of 
the rising generation in every State of the Union. In 
addition to the original capital there is suburban Wash- 
! igton — a new city — which must be supplied with model 
streets, sewers, and other modern municipal equipments 
without unjustly oppressing either its own people or 
those of the old city. 

It is superfluous, however, in this gathering to specify 
the many opportunities offered another Shepherd to pro- 
mote the capital's material interests by making it notably 
more attractive, more healthful, more prosperous; to 
develop it vigorously as an educational, literary, musical, 
and artistic center; to gratify its high aspirations toward 
every form of intellectual and moral uplift. The great 
National City is now building, and there is room for 
every notable contributor to the welfare of the expand- 
ing capital — whether in Congress or in the White House 
or among our own citizens — to erect for himself a con- 
spicuous and enduring monument as a creator of the 
Greater Washington. 

Shepherd fought not only for the material Washing- 
ton, but for the Washingtonian. Who in Shepherd's 
spirit will compel full recognition that the Greater 
Washington contains not only streets, buildings, 



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trees, and parks, but men, with duties to perform 
and rights to be maintained? 

Since Shepherd's day, and to some extent through the 
influence of his labors, the scorned Washingtonians 
have, like the once-despised Washington, come partly 
into their own. They are now generally recognized as 
by far the largest contributors to the upbuilding of the 
capital. They gave of their own property that the Na- 
tion might practically own and exclusively control a 
national city. They donated to the Nation five-sevenths 
of the area of Washington. They gave the land from 
the proceeds of the sale of which the original public 
buildings were erected. Nearly all the work of street 
improvement and capital making which was done for 
three-fourths of a century was done by them. Through 
disregard by the Nation of its financial obligations to 
the capital the Washingtonians were in 1835 forced into 
bankruptcy in the public-spirited attempt to bear alone 
the Nation's burden. In the same spirit they endured 
in the 70's the travail of the birth of the New Wash- 
ington. They have paid their proportion of every na- 
tional tax, direct and indirect. They pay more per 
capita in city taxation, as the census reports show, than 
the average taxpayer in any of the ten American cities 
approximating Washington in size. They have risked 
life and shed their blood in every national war. As a 
border community Washington sent many of her sons to 
the south in the civil struggle; while to preserve the 
Union the first volunteers came from the capital, and 
Washingtonians supplied more troops in excess of their 
quota than any State except one. In the recent war 
with Spain they sent to the front a fine regiment, far ex- 
ceeding their quota in numbers. They have thus placed 
both sacrifice of treasure and blood-sacrifice upon the 
\;it ion's altar. 

In modern times of peace the public spirit of the 



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Washingtonian is equally in evidence whenever sacrifices 
of time or of energy or of money in the city's interest are 
required. No other American community responds 
more promptly or more liberally in proportion to its 
means to any call for aid for the distressed, whether in 
Russia or San Francisco or Italy or at home. Our busi- 
ness and professional men, the educational, scientific, 
literary and artistic elements of our population, our 
workingmen in public and private employ, our depart- 
ment clerks and other Government employees, our winter 
residents in process of conversion into Washingtonians, 
combine to constitute one of the strongest, most intelli- 
gent, most public-spirited and most American communi- 
ties in the whole Republic. 

When the Americanism of the Washingtonian is slurred 
he is able to reply that, owing no allegiance to a State, 
he is American and nothing else; American in a peculiar 
and exclusive sense — the most American and national of 
all Americans. The Nation's city is the material embodi- 
ment of the national spirit. It has flourished and it has 
sickened in proportion as that spirit has been strong or 
weak. It has been and is a vital, patriotic harmonizing 
force in the Republic's history, bringing together in sym- 
pathetic interest the people of the sections and the 
States and binding them together in the Grand Order of 
National Americans. 

The people of the National Capital, with their record 
of practical and sentimental service to the Nation as good 
Americans and through their city as a unifying patriotic 
force, and with their peculiarly high standard of Ameri- 
canism, are clearly entitled to fair treatment by the 
Nation, and surely deserve to be relieved from humiliat- 
ing slurs and from disabilities not essential in the public 
interest which place them in certain respects on a lower 
plane than other Americans. 

What should be the objects of a new Shepherd cam- 
paign in behalf of the Washingtonian? 



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First, ho needs continued and ungrudging recognition 
by the Nation and by Congress of his public-spirited 
services as a capital builder, as a contributor in land 
and money, as a taxpayer and otherwise, to the city's 
development ; he needs faithful fulfillment of the Nation's 
own financial obligations in respect to the capital, and 
very clearly he needs relief from slanders upon his pub- 
lic spirit and from undeserved slurs as a mendicant. The 
Washingtonian is entitled to his good name. 

Second, he needs access for his sons to local means of 
self-support, that they may not be exiled in order to 
live. The establishment of light and clean manufactures 
like those of Paris and Vienna, and the development of 
local trade, wholesale and retail, must be encouraged. 
Then repeal or amend in the interest of the District the 
apportionment of offices law, so that the youth of Wash- 
ington, if the most meritorious of all applicants, may 
have ready access to the Government departments and 
workshops, which for Washington take the place of iron 
mills in Pittsburg and the cotton, woolen and shoe fac- 
tories of many New England cities. Congress by its pol- 
icy of discouraging commerce and manufactures at the 
capital excludes nil other great factories and workshops 
than its own, and then by the apportionment of offices 
law (a relic of the old spoils system, distributing offices 
like bandits' plunder among the States in proportion to 
their strength) shuts out the growing youth of the city 
from the classified service and from access to the only 
local means of self-support of this kind which it permits 
to exist. In the Nation's city national workshops are 
local. Washington is the only community in the world 
where employment of the local youth in the local work- 
shops, instead of being encouraged, is prohibited; where 
the young man must go abroad in order to become 
eligible for employment at home. 

Third, lie needs access on equal terms with other 



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Americans to the Federal courts; the same right to sue 
in a Federal court as that enjoyed by the citizen of a 
State. Fourth, without disturbing national control of 
the ten miles square he needs representation in accord- 
ance with American principles in the national legislature, 
which exercises this exclusive control, and which may 
dispose of his property, his liberty, his life. This right, 
to secure which a constitutional amendment is held to 
be necessary, will be granted by the Nation slowly and 
grudgingly. But when granted it will not necessarily 
weaken in the least the Nation's control of the National 
Capital or reduce in the slightest its obligation 
to participate financially in the capital's development; 
and it can hardly be denied when the District attains a 
half million population of intelligent, public-spirited 
Americans, the goal toward which it is now speeding. 

Meanwhile the Washingtonian should be scrupulously 
protected in the meager vestiges of representation and 
participation in his own government and affairs which he 
now enjoys by custom or by law. He should endure no 
slurring discrimination, new or old, which is not clearly 
shown to be absolutely essential to the national welfare. 
In his inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1841, under 
weather conditions which brought to him speedy death, 
President William Henry Harrison said: "It is in this 
District only where American citizens are to be found 
who under a settled system of policy are deprived of 
many important political privileges, without any inspir- 
ing hope as to the future. Their only consolation under 
circumstances of such deprivation is that of the devoted 
exterior guards of a camp — that their sufferings secure 
tranquillity and safety within. Are there any of their 
countrymen who would subject them to greater sacri- 
fices, to any other humiliations than those essentially 
necessary to the security of the object for which they 
were thus separated from their felloiv-citizeris?" 



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To raise the capital and its people to the pinnacle of 
honor and prosperity on which Shepherd aspired to 
place them, Washingtonians must struggle, not only for 
justice from the Nation, especially as represented by 
Congress, but for harmony among themselves. The lat- 
ter is, in fact, essential to the former, and both are nec- 
essary to the capital's victory. We must attack local 
inertia on the one hand and soften local discord on the 
other, bringing about harmonious and effective coopera- 
tion among ourselves. When the Washingtonian, proud 
of his city, and so loyal to it that he is ready to sacrifice 
personal prejudice in its behalf, works shoulder to 
shoulder with all other Washingtonians in promotion of 
the city's welfare, the obstacles to the capital's advance- 
ment will disappear as if by magic; the national obliga- 
tions will be fulfilled ungrudgingly and with pride, and 
Washington will extend to the farthest limits of the 
District every characteristic feature of a modern, model 
capital. Shall we not, then, enroll ourselves under 
Shepherd's standard in the patriotic order of "Modern 
founders of the Newer and Greater Washington," weld- 
ing the :>()(),()()() Washingtonians into a unit, whose motto 
shall be, "All Washingtonians must stand together," and 
who shall labor in the true spirit of Shepherd for the 
animate as well as the inanimate Washington, for the 
men of the capital as well as its streets and buildings, 
its parks and monuments? 

And when, building on Shepherd's foundation and in- 
spired by his example, we have made a grand reality of 
the ideal capital of which he dreamed and for which he 
fought, we shall have erected to his memory another 
monument more enduring and more honorable even than 
that of bronze which we dedicate today with music and 
oratory and public rejoicings. 



ADDRESS BY 



fflt. William Jff. jjtetiiittglg 

OF THE WASHINGTON BAR. 



One of the most ardent, influential, and loyal friends 
that Shepherd had, during his intense struggle, was Crosby 
S. Noyes, a bust of whom has been placed just 
within the portals of this new and beautiful Municipal 
building. It is fitting and proper that a son of his should 
have addressed you on this occasion, when the citizens 
of this District are paying honor to the memory of his 
father's dead friend. 

As for myself, although conscious of my inability to 
do justice to the subject assigned me on this occasion, 
yet it is gratifying to me, by a simple reference to facts, 
to make known to those of you who knew him not what 
kind of man Shepherd was and somewhat of the difficul- 
ties with which he had to contend. 

With so many monuments in this, the Federal City, 
erected in memory of heroes of war by a grateful Nation, 
it is gratifying to realize that the residents of this mu- 
nicipality and friends of Shepherd have caused to be 
erected this monument to its civic hero, this fighter and 
conqueror for the city of his birth. 

He had to fight against the neglect, inattention, and 
indifference of the Congress to the duties assumed by 
the Nation for the benefit and welfare of the Nation's 
Capital; he had to fight against the inertia, fears, preju- 
dices, and apprehensions of many worthy and well-mean- 
ing citizens, and he had to arouse the dormant knowledge, 
of the Congress and the people of this District, of the 

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fact that this was the Capital City of the United States, 
a wealthy, powerful, and growing nation, whose Consti- 
tution gave its Congress exclusive legislative jurisdiction 
over it. 

His ambition was to make the Capital City worthy of 
the Nation, illustrative of its wealth, its power, its ad- 
vancement along the lines of education and progress in 
the arts and sciences, and, in fact, in all that makes up 
civilization itself. 

Conscious of being right, of his own honesty of pur- 
pose, intention, and thought, with grim determination 
he steadily pursued the course he had mapped out in 
spite of all opposition — in spite of the severest and bit- 
terest criticism to which any man had ever been sub- 
jected; but sacrificing his personal comfort and personal 
fortune he continued the fight and won. The world 
loves a fighter and especially a victorious fighter. 

This assemblage here today is evidence of the fact of 
public appreciation of the arduous services of the man 
and of a desire in the hearts of the citizens of this Dis- 
trict to make manifest in some visible form this appre- 
ciation of a grateful people. 

And now, my friends, something of the man himself 
and the times during which he struggled. 

lie was born in this city January 31, 1835. At the age 
of 17 he undertook to learn the trade of a plumber. 
His opportunities to acquire what we ordinarily under- 
stand as an education, were few; but with his wonder- 
ful brain, opportunities for an education, in fact, 
acquired by contact with men, by observation, experience, 
and thought, were many and were availed of by him, so 
that while he was not an educated man in a scholarly 
sense, yet in the broader sense of that term he was 
educated. 

In personal appearance he was a magnificent specimen 
of manhood. Tall, large of frame, with remarkable 



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strength, broad forehead, rugged features, firmness ex- 
pressed in mouth and chin, he attracted attention where- 
ever he might be. In his presence you felt that a spirit 
of force emanated from the man. He possessed that 
rare quality which we often hear of, but seldom experi- 
ence, of personal magnetism. He was quick in judg- 
ment, and quick and energetic in action; strong in his 
friendships and strong in his hatreds, yet with all gentle 
and forgiving in nature. Such is a brief and somewhat 
unsatisfactory idea of the personality of the man. 

In order to comprehend the situation I want briefly to 
call your attention to the condition of this city and 
District at the time of Shepherd's advent in municipal 
affairs. 

The original plan of the city under the guidance of 
Washington and the genius and skill of L'Enfant, the 
French engineer whom he had caused to be employed, 
shows that its founders fully realized and appreciated 
that in time it was to be a magnificent Capital City of a 
great and powerful Nation. Hence, its circles, from 
which radiated broad avenues bisecting the ordinary 
numbered and lettered streets of the city, which its 
founders never intended nor expected that the newly 
born city with a population of a few thousand would be 
able to develop and improve. 

Congress authorized the construction of a few fine 
-and artistic public buildings for the use of the Govern- 
ment, granted a municipal charter to the City of Wash- 
ington, and apparently having satisfied its conscience 
that it had discharged its constitutional duty, left the 
city to get along as best it could, and continued this 
state of neglect until Shepherd's activities along the line 
of municipal and civic improvement caused it to wake 
up and take notice. 

There were three distinct municipal legislative bodies 



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in this District: a Mayor, Board of Aldermen and Com- 
mon Council for each of the cities of Washington and 
Georgetown and a Levy Court for the county outside of 
the two cities. These municipal bodies had been able to 
do but little toward the improvement of a city laid out 
on such broad plans. Streets and avenues were un- 
paved, except with cobblestones in some instances. The 
broad sidewalks were generally out of repair; there was 
no general system of sewerage; and the people were 
disheartened by their inability to act and by what they 
regarded as the neglect of the General Government. 
Then came the Civil War, attracting thousands to the 
city. Army and supply wagons and the activities 
which naturally centered here during the war left its 
highways at its close in a horrible condition, many 
of them utterly impassable, filled with mud and 
muddy pools after every rainfall, and in dry spells 
with every wind the dust was at times as thick as 
a London fog, penetrating business places and homes 
and human tempers. The city authorities did what they 
could to remedy the evils, but could not do much. Its 
condition as the Federal Capital was mortifying to its 
citizens, was considered disgraceful by visitors from other 
sections of the country, and by representatives of other 
nations who were compelled to come here was regarded 
with contempt and disgust. In fact, agitation for re- 
moval of the seat of government to some place in the 
West had begun and was increasing in strength and 
influence. 

Shepherd, in 1861, at the outbreak of the war, with the 
National Rifles of this city, the first military body to 
invade Virginia, volunteered his services under the call 
of the President for three months' service. This bare 
statement of fact makes no impression upon your minds 
beyond that of knowledge of the fact, yet it is suggestive 



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of the character of the man — bold, independent, and 
self-reliant. At that time Washington was a Southern 
city. The sympathy of the majority of its stable citizens 
was with the South, and Shepherd's volunteering in the 
Federal service and running for membership of the Com- 
mon Council on the Republican ticket, when the city was 
under the domination of the Federal Government, was 
not calculated to win for him the regard of his fellow 
citizens. At this sad period, when bitterness of feeling 
and antagonism were violent, he simply did what he 
deemed his duty to his country and the city of his birth 
demanded of him, regardless of breaking ties of friend- 
ship and consequences to himself. 

In 1861, at age of 26, he was elected a member of the 
Common Council and was chosen president of that body. 
In 1867 he became a member of the Levy Court. 

His attention being thus attracted to municipal affairs 
he naturally took a broad view of the situation, and 
deploring the disgraceful condition in which the city 
was, he concluded that a change in the form of munic- 
ipal government was necessary and determined, if possi- 
ble, to bring it about. The basic idea of his thought was 
that the administration of municipal affairs ought to be 
tied more closely to the National Government — the 
closer the better. His own idea was that the govern- 
ment of the District ought to be placed under one of the 
executive departments of the United States, preferably 
the Department of the Interior. But recognizing that 
so radical a change at once might be impracticable and 
utterly fail, he called a meeting of some half-dozen pro- 
gressive citizens and friends who were in sympathy with 
him, to consider the matter and consult as to the best 
means of accomplishing something practical in the 
betterment of municipal affairs. A line of action was 
decided on and the result was that in 1869 a committee 



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of citizens was selected, of which Shepherd was a mem- 
ber, to draft a bill for the better government of the 
District. 

In 1870 he became president of the Citizens' Reform 
Association and was elected to the Hoard of Aldermen. 

At t his time the population of this city was a little less 
than 110,000, and of the entire District about 131,000. 

This agitation for a change in the municipal govern- 
ments of the District resulted in the Act of Congress of 
February 21, L871, whereby the District of Columbia was 
created a body corporate for municipal purposes. The 
act provided for a Governor, a Secretary, a Legislative 
Assembly, consisting of a Council of 11 members; a 
House of Delegates of 22 members; a delegate to the 
House of Representatives; and a Hoard of Public Works. 

To preserve the elective franchise, the members of the 
House of Delegates and the delegate to the House of 
Representatives were to be elected by the qualified 
voters: the Governor was ex officio President of the 
Board of Public Works. The 11 members of the Council 
and all the other officials were to be appointed by the 
President and confirmed by the Senate of the United 
States. The act was to go into effect June 1, 1871. Henry 
1). Cooke was appointed Governor and Alexander R. 
Shepherd Vice-President of the Board of Public Works; 
and in 1873 he was appointed Governor. 

That you may appreciate what ensued, I desire to call 
your attention to two sections of this act of Congress 
relative to the Board of Public Works: 

"Sec. 77. The board of public works shall have entire 
control of and make all regulations which they shall 
deem necessary for keeping in repair the streets, avenues, 
alleys, and sewers of the city, and all other works which 
may be intrusted to their charge by the legislative 
assembly or Congress." 

"Sec. 78. They shall disburse upon their warrant all 



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moneys appropriated by the United States, or the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, or collected from property-holders, 
in pursuance of law, for the improvement of streets, 
avenues, alleys, and sewers, and roads and bridges." 

This was the legislative authority for all that followed. 

The new government being fully organized, the citi- 
zens watched, some with hope and confidence, others 
with apprehensions and fear, to see how the experiment 
would turn out. 

Shepherd regarded this new municipal machinery as 
an instrument by means of which he could accomplish 
vast improvements in the physical betterment of the 
city, which he had long thought out and determined 
upon. By his strong personality, he impressed his asso- 
ciates and those who came in contact with him, with the 
correctness of his views and their feasibility. He infused 
not only hope, but belief and enthusiasm. By his man- 
hood, courage, and strength of character he naturally 
dominated. 

A bill was introduced in the Legislative Assembly 
providing for a loan of $4, 000, 000, evidenced by bonds 
of that amount, to be used for public improvements 
The Legislative Assembly, applying thus early the prin- 
ciple of the referendum, referred it to a vote of the cit- 
izens at an election to be held November 21, 1871. At 
the election it was approved almost unanimously. This 
was encouraging and demonstrated that the mass of the 
voters were in full sympathy with the efforts to improve 
the Capital City and efface conditions which had brought 
it into national disgrace. 

Now began Shepherd's herculean task, the doing of 
which is the cause of your being here today to honor 
the memory of the man who did it. 

In the short space of three years a vast work was done. 
Sewers were laid. Miles of avenues and streets were 



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graded and paved. The trees, in which we now take 
so much pride, were planted. 

The entire city was in a state of upheaval. He tore 
up the track of the railroad from the South extended 
across Pennsylvania Avenue at the foot of Capitol Hill 
and running into the old station of the Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue. 

In the early morning hours he tore down the old 
Northern Liberty Market House, where now stands the 
beautiful Carnegie Library building. He filled up the 
greater part of the old James Creek Canal — a filthy 
open sewer, extending through the heart of the city — 
paved it and converted it into a highway. One Satur- 
day night he nearly buried the depot of the Baltimore and 
Ohio Railroad at the corner of New Jersey Avenue and C 
Street. This act was followed a few days later by an 
interview between him and John W. Garrett, the then 
president of the railroad company, at Wormley's Hotel, 
at the corner of Fifteenth and H Streets. At the con- 
clusion of the interview, Mr. Garrett said to Shepherd, 
"Any time you are willing to accept the position of Vice- 
President of the B. & O. I will gladly see that you get 
it. You are just the man the company needs and 
wants." The vast improvements of which he was the 
dominating cause were done at a cost of about $20,000,- 
000. Suchenormous and rapid work at such heavy cost, 
involving the incurring of a huge debt and large assess- 
ments on real estate for special benefits, struck many 
good citizens with absolute horror and apprehension. 
Complaints were many and loud. Criticism was severe 
and bitter. This led to an investigation by Congress in 
1874, which resulted in acquitting Shepherd of all 
charges involving his personal honesty and integrity, 
but practically convicting him of being too energetic, too 
farsighted, and of being at least half a century ahead 
of his time. 



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Congress, by Act of June 20, 1874, established what 
it termed a temporary form of government for this Dis- 
trict. It repealed all provisions of the Act of 1871 for a 
Governor, a Secretary, a Legislative Assembly, a Board 
of Public Works, and a Delegate to Congress, every 
vestige of the exercise of the elective franchise, and 
authorized the appointment of three Commissioners.. 
This continued until the Act of June 11, 1878, provid- 
ing for the present form of government as a permanent 
form. 

Shepherd, being thus legislated out of office, with his 
personal fortune seriously impaired by absorbed atten- 
tion to public duties, retired to private life. 

In 1879 he became interested in a mining property in 
Mexico, and in 1880 removed there with his family, to 
apply there the same energy and executive ability in the 
prosecution of his work that he had manifested here. 

Seven years rolled by, and in the summer of 1887 it 
became known that Shepherd was coming East on a 
visit. 

By this time the necessary development of the vast 
scheme of improvements Shepherd had inaugurated, 
made manifest to our citizens, what before they had 
heard of but had not appreciated, viz, the grand plan 
of L'Enfant for the Federal City. They realized that 
Shepherd had appreciated the genius of L'Enfant, the 
beauty and grandeur and appropriateness of his plan for 
the Capital City of what would inevitably be a great 
and powerful Nation, controlling the destinies of the 
Western Hemisphere. They realized that Shepherd had 
taken this conception of L'Enfant, evidenced only by a 
map grown old and musty among the archives in the 
Capitol, and by his own genius, his indomitable will, his 
wonderful energy and perseverance under the greatest 
difficulties had crystallized it on the ground and made 



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it visible to the eye. They realized that this city, in- 
fused with the spirit of renewed life, health, and vigor, 
would necessarily continue to grow and develop along 
the lines originally marked out for it by Washington and 
L'Enfant, and in the not far distant future would be- 
come the visible symbol of the greatness and power and 
wealth and genius of this Republic. 

Realizing all these things, the citizens generally at last 
recognized the fact that Shepherd was the one man 
among them, to whom the principal credit for the 
achievement was due. Very many of those who had 
vigorously opposed him during the three years of his 
great labor became his admirers and friends; many of 
his bitterest enemies made personal acknowledgment to 
him that he had been right and that they had been 
wrong; that the great work he had accomplished could 
only have been done in the way he had done it. 

This kindly feeling naturally resulted in the determi- 
nation that on his return to the city after seven years 
absence in Mexico, some public recognition to the former 
Vice-President of the Board of Public Works and Gov- 
ernor of the District of Columbia, should be made of the 
appreciation of the citizens of the District of him and 
his achievements. At the expressed request of the citi- 
zens generally, the then Commissioners of the District 
extended to him the freedom of the city. 

On the evening of October 6, 1887, a grand demons! ra- 
tion in his honor was given. Pennsylvania Avenue from 
the Capitol to Fifteenth Street was {profusely decorated; 
crowds lined its sidewalks; the roadway was one mass of 
light from fireworks of all kinds, as along its broad sur- 
face marched every civic and military organization in the 
city, members of various labor organizations and volun- 
tary associations. From a stand erected south of the 
Treasury Department fronting the Avenue, Shepherd 



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reviewed this parade and, in response to loud and re- 
peated calls for a speech, said, in part, as follows: 

"My fellow-citizens, you see before you tonight a 
proud and grateful man, proud of a demonstration that 
riches could not buy nor influence command, grateful 
for this outpouring of thousands of hearts to welcome 
me back to the city of my birth and the city which I 
love beyond every other spot on earth. You have a city 
that has just commenced to grow. During the past 
seven years it has grown so that in the little I have seen 
of it I have hardly been able to recognize the city I so 
lately left. And your future is destined to exceed all 
your calculations and expectations. . . . You are 
on the high road to success, and I want to give you this 
little bit of advice: Don't quarrel among yourselves. 
When you do you jeopardize your best interests. Stand 
shoulder to shoulder and fight for the good of the Dis- 
trict. If you do this, you will be a power invincible; 
you can command and conquer whatever you desire. 
But if you split up with intestine troubles, if you 
quarrel among yourselves, you can effect no grand 
results." 

"Three cheers for the maker of Washington" were 
called for by some one in the crowd, and they were 
heartily given. Then it was "three cheers and tiger." 

Continuing he said, "I must take issue with the man 
who called for those cheers. It is to General Grant, that 
dear old hero, whom we all loved, that we owe more than 
to any other man. To General Babcock, the Commis- 
sioner of Public Buildings, you owe more than you can 
realize. To dear old Governor Cooke, who has gone from 
us, you owe more than you can ever repay to him and 
his family. To my associates on the Board of Public 
Works, in the Board of Health and the District govern- 
ment, you, and the people of this country, owe a debt 
which you ought to be glad to repay. As for me, I am 
repaid tonight for all the toil and trouble I ever had in 
helping to build up the City of Washington. I bid you 
good-night, and God bless you, one and all." 

On the following evening Governor and Mrs. Shepherd 



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held a reception at the Willard Hotel to afford their 
many admirers and friends an opportunity to pay their 
personal respects, which was largely availed of. 

He returned to his work in Mexico with the good 
wishes of all. Some five years passed by, when, in Sep- 
tember, 1902, the city was shocked to learn that he was 
seriously ill, followed shortly thereafter by the sad in- 
telligence that he had died on September 12th. His 
work there had been accomplished; he had developed a 
large mining property; its floating indebtedness had all 
been paid; he felt that his further presence in Mexico 
was not essential and was in pleasant anticipation of 
returning to this city of his birth and love, when, in the 
mystery of Divine Providence, he was stricken down. 

Of the man Shepherd was, and how he impressed all 
who came in contact with him, is indicated in a letter 
from Mr. Enrique C. Creel, recently Ambassador of 
Mexico to this country, written at Chihuahua, April 24, 
1903. After expressing deep regret at his inability to be 
present at the funeral, he says: 

"I wish to say that the life of Governor Shepherd in 
this country was one of constant work and development 
of a large mining camp which, with his wonderful energy, 
he built up and left prosperous and happy. 

"He did a good deal towards strengthening the friendly 
connections of the people of the two sister republics; 
he was respected, admired, and loved by all of the 
Mexican people who knew him. 

"He was a dear friend of President Diaz, of Governor 
Terasas, and other of the prominent Mexican citizens of 
this Republic. He was good, sound, virtuous, energetic, 
bright, intelligent, with a generous heart full of love for 
everybody, and he died surrounded by the love of his 
family and friends and of thousands of people for whose 
welfare he contributed." 

Of what followed his death, most of you are familiar; 
of the enforced delay in bringing his body here for inter- 



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ment; of the long funeral pageant which escorted his 
remains from the Baltimore and Potomac depot on the 
morning of May 4, 1903, along Pennsylvania Avenue, 
Fifteenth Street, and New York Avenue to the New 
York Avenue Presbyterian Church. General sadness, 
sorrow, and regret prevailed. A feeling that something 
more should be done to honor the memory of the man 
who had done what he did, that some lasting monument 
in his honor should be erected to indissolubly connect 
his name with the history of the Federal City, so that 
future generations might recall what this civic hero had 
accomplished. 

Of him it might truly be said, "simonumentum quceris, 
circumspice." This statue is but the visible suggestion 
of the idea. 



PRESENTATION OF STATUE BY 



B. H. Warner, Chairman of the Shepherd Memorial 
Finance Committee, presented the statue to the District. 
Mr. Warner said : 

Had Mr. Crosby S. Noyes, the lifelong friend of Ex- 
Governor Shepherd, who originated the plan of erecting 
this statue and was the original chairman of the com- 
mittee, survived, he would have performed the duty 
which this day devolves upon me. 

Today we present to the Nation's Capital the statue 
of a hero of peace; one who, undaunted by opposition, 
labored for its regeneration and recreation, and this 
bronze of Alexander R. Shepherd is, in the coming 
centuries, to say to the world that a grateful people 
appreciated his patriotic public services. 

Nature gave him not only unusual ability, but a 
physical presence which commanded respect and admira- 
tion. He was a born organizer and leader of men, and 
when the opportunity came, enthusiastically lifted Wash- 
ington from a small municipality to the rank and place 
of the capital city of a powerful, prosperous, and wealthy 
nation. To accomplish this he expended vast sums of 
money in a brief space of time, set aside his private 
interests in an earnest and loyal devotion to the cause 
upon which he had entered, projected plans so compre- 
hensive that they have even yet not been fully carried 
out. 

Washington, with its rapidly increasing attractions, 
is his chief memorial. His name and fame are perma- 
nently connected with its future. Time has vindicated 

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his prophesies and the animosities which confronted him 
have been obliterated. His enemies have become his 
friends. 

Let this statue forever remind those who look upon 
it and who are proud of Greater Washington, that Alex- 
ander R. Shepherd, next to the father of his country, 
was its chief benefactor. 

And now, | Messrs. Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia, we give to you the custody of this memorial 
to a valued citizen, an able and efficient public officer, 
a courageous and noble man. 



In the course of his address, Mr. Warner took occa- 
sion to pay a compliment to Speaker Cannon, who was 
seated at the front of the stand. 

" While we are looking for friends of the District," he 
said, "I want to say there is none more vigorous than 
my friend to my right, Speaker Cannon. We have only 
one Uncle Sam, and we have only one Uncle Joe." 

The remark met an instantaneous outburst of applause. 



ACCEPTANCE OF STATUE BY 



Henry B. F. Macfarland, President of the Board of 
Commissioners, District of Columbia, replied as follows: 

The Government of the District of Columbia accepts 
from the citizens of the National Capital this statue of 
Governor Shepherd with full appreciation. The wheel 
has gone the full circle round in less than a generation. 
The man who stands before us as though in life, rugged, 
capable, ready for a great task, and to do it quickly, 
since his day of opportunity will soon be gone, could 
not have imagined in the hour of his downfall that so 
soon the people, not the government of the District 
of Columbia, would set up this memorial in front of the 
District Building. Truly, cities are not always ungrate- 
ful, and truly the second thought of a people is almost 
always just. It was not strange that Shepherd's work 
which was like the blasting of foundations out of rock 
for the capital of the future and which had been 
done so quickly that its great cost, falling entirely upon 
the 130,000 people here (the National Government fur- 
nishing nothing but the authority), should have been 
misunderstood by those tax-payers who could not see its 
significance for the future because of its heavy exactions 
in the present. Most men take short views in public as 
in private affairs, and naturally enough think first of 
money cost to themselves. It is only strange that in 
less than ten years the tide of public opinion began to 
turn, and those leaders of the community who had faith- 
fully supported Shepherd in prosperity and adversity, 

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notably among them Crosby S. Noyes, whose bust stands 
in the entrance to the District Building, found that their 
friend and his work were beginning to be rightly ap- 
praised. That Shepherd lived to see the gratitude of 
his fellow-citizens, to receive the freedom of the city he 
had served, as well as to restore his personal fortune, 
broken by his public service, was as gratifying to his 
friends as to himself, and this day their joy must overflow. 
We, of the District government, upon whom the task 
of continuing the superstructure of this capital's great- 
ness has come, facing our entirely different problems, 
can yet enter into his difficulties and appreciate better 
than private citizens what they meant to him. Ours is 
a task of administration, of well-defined policies for 
periods of years, of continuing the work which he began, 
so that we may hand it over with its improvements to 
our successors. It does not call for heroic measures or 
revolutionary activity. Shepherd had to spend in about 
three years on the improvement of the streets and 
avenues and sewers and water mains what we have 
spent in about twice the time on the recent extraor- 
dinary projects of improvement. He knew his time was 
short, and that he must do his work rapidly, even if 
roughly, and expensively. Shepherd had little time for 
organizing municipal services, and his service was long 
before the day of that social and economic munici- 
pal legislation which so interests and absorbs cities 
in our time. Our annual budget of current ex- 
penditures, now running between nine and ten million 
dollars, would have seemed very large in his day, just as 
the present prosperity of the District, which did not 
begin until the permanent form of government went into 
effect in 1878, far exceeds the promise of that period. 
It is a striking fact that most of Shepherd's great work 
was done not as Governor, but as Vice-President of the 



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Board of Public Works, consisting of five persons, the 
first Governor, Henry D. Cooke, being President ex-offi- 
cio. Shepherd was Governor only from September, 
1873, to June 20, 1874, about nine months. Practically, 
therefore, he wrought through a commission form of gov- 
ernment, such as Congress afterwards gave the District 
with similar powers to those of the Board of Public 
Works. That board was even more like the Galveston 
and other city commissions modeled on the Commission 
of the District of Columbia. Shepherd is sometimes 
cited as an example of the value of what is called 
a single-head executive in a city. But it was not 
the Governor, who began the execution of George Wash- 
ington's plan for the Federal City and carried it so far 
forward, but the man and his associates on the Board of 
Public Works. Undoubtedly, the efficiency of the Board 
of Public Works was in the minds of the framers of the 
Permanent Government Act of 1878, which the United 
States Supreme Court called "the Constitution of the 
District of Columbia." The thirty years' success of that 
law, involving the so-called compact of 1878 between the 
United States and the District for the payment of the 
expenses half and half, together with the surrender of 
the suffrage, and thereby the elimination of partisan 
politics from the municipal affairs of the District of 
Columbia, is visible to every seeing eye which contrasts 
the conditions of 1878 with the conditions of 1909. The 
District Government Building, a model of its kind, 
is beautiful without and useful within, showing a full 
dollar's value for every dollar spent, is typical of the 
results of that new form of municipal government. Be- 
cause the work has spread over thirty years, because it 
was necessarily quiet and in no way spectacular, its im- 
portance has not been apparent to all eyes. Some must 
be reminded, for example, that in that time $215,000,000, 



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or more than was expended in all the preceding seventy- 
eight years except for the Shepherd improvements, has 
been spent here. This beautiful city did not happen. 
The appropriations and the legislation, the constructive 
and administrative work necessary to make it and its 
government what they are, did not come by accident. 
All, since 1878, is the result of intense toil on the part 
of the successors of the Governors, supported by the 
citizens through their organizations and the press. 

The fabric which has been building on the Shepherd 
foundation has now reached noble proportions, thanks 
to the labors of many men, into which we of the twentieth 
century have entered. We have passed through crises 
and emergencies which threatened the life of the struc- 
ture. We can see clearly now that it will stand all 
storms. The future of this Capital is certain to be one 
of steady progress, increasing beauty, unfolding oppor- 
tunity. The population will increase and yet will main- 
tain its character as the most American in the United 
States. Some of us who are here today will see a million 
people in the District of Columbia and some of us will see 
two millions. Its wealth, now great for such a capital, 
will grow in geometric progression. The park system 
and the public architecture will be wisely developed 
on the right lines. Let us hope that the private archi- 
tecture, especially that in smaller buildings, may be of 
the best type, so that we may not have the beauty of 
the city spoiled by ugly structures, no cheaper than those 
which might be beautiful. Gradually the alley slums are 
being reduced, and better housing will be provided either 
by public or private initiative. We shall continue to im- 
prove sanitary and other social conditions by legislation 
and administration. This is an incomplete world, but 
we can work towards perfection and all our plans are 
laid with that in view. 



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We rejoice that in these endeavors the District gov- 
ernment and the District people, though they must do 
the actual work, and bear half the expense, have the sym- 
pathy and support of all patriotic Americans. Congress, 
representing the whole country, is the supreme authority, 
exercising the national power. Fortunately, partly by law, 
chiefly by custom, Congress gives the Commissioners the 
fullest opportunity to present the needs and plans of the 
District and to pass upon all propositions respecting it. 
Through successive years, official and unofficial relations 
have been established which give full opportunity for the 
District's voice in Congressional consideration of Dis- 
trict affairs, through the Commissioners as the District's 
representatives at the Capitol. Therefore, Congress acts 
advisedly and with the benefit of full information. We 
should guard carefully the present status in the interest 
of the future as well as the present, so that we may not 
jeopardize either the compact of 1878 or the strong but 
delicate comity between the District and Congress which 
affects all District legislation and appropriations. 

George Washington's noble idea of a magnificent 
capital now being realized before our eyes, after nearly 
a century of neglect and ridicule, seems entirely appro- 
priate to us now that the Nation has proved to be the 
lasting one that Washington predicted, instead of an- 
other rope of sand,'like the confederation which preceded 
it. Even Washington did not, in 1789, know that John 
Marshall as Chief Justice of the United States would 
draw out of the Constitution the powers which made 
the Nation endure and lesser men might well believe 
that the experiment would fail. 

We are not hampered by such doubtful fears, but are 
free to believe with all our hearts in the future of the 
Republic and the future of its capital. 

We do well today to honor once more the man who 



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did more than any other one man to carry out the plans 
of George Washington for the city which he founded and 
which bears his name. The statue of Alexander R. 
Shepherd will to the end of this city's life inspire its 
citizens with courage and zeal to work together for noble 
ends. Thus working together we can confidently expect 
that they will have the greatest possible success." 



Chairman Noyes then presented to the audience the 
Sculptor, Mr. U. S. J. Dunbar, after which the benedic- 
tion was pronounced by the Right Rev. Alfred Harding, 
Bishop of Washington, and the vast audience slowly re- 
tired, praising the Statue and the indomitable Shepherd, 
the founder of Greater Washington. 



SHEPHERD MEMORIAL COMMITTEE 



EXECUTIVE 



Theodore W. Noyes, Chairman 
John F. Wilkins, Vice-Chairman 
Charles J. Bell, Treasurer 
William P. Van Wickle, Secretary 
Scott C. Bone James F. Oyster 

Barry Bulkley R. Ross Perry 

William V. Cox Frank K. Raymond 

James E. Fitch Edgar D. Shaw 

William F. Gude J. H. Small, Jr. 

George H. Harries Thomas W. Smith 

Rudolph Kauffmann O. G. Staples 

John R. McLean C. H. Syme 

William F. Mattingly George Truesdell 

Frank A. Munsey Brainard H. Warner 

FINANCE 

Brainard H. Warner, Chairman 
William V. Cox, Vice-Chairman 
Charles J. Bell, Treasurer 
Samuel W. Curriden William F. Mattingly 

Henry E. Davis Theodore W. Noyes 

Andrew Gleeson E. Southard Parker 

George H. Harries Louis P. Shoemaker 

H. B. F. Macfarland Alexander T. Stuart 

William P. Van Wickle 

SELECTION OF STATUE 

Brainard H. Warner, Chairman 
William P. Van Wickle, Secretary 
William V. Cox James E. Fitch 

Charles J. Bell Rudolph Kauffmann 

Theodore W. Noyes 

PRESS 

Scott C. Bone, Chairman 
Rudolph Kauffmann Edward R. McLean 

Edgar D. Shaw 



ARRANGEMENTS 

William V. Cox, Chairman 
Rudolph Kauffmann, Vice-Chairman 
William P. Van Wickle, Secretary 
William F. Gude James F. Oyster 

George H. Harries J. H. Small, Jr. 



RECEPTION COMMITTEE FOR THE CEREMONIES 
Members of the Society for Historic Decorations and Civic Improvement 



Frederick D 
Edward T. Bates 
Sidney I. Besselievre 
Frank L. Biscoe 
Frederic C. Bryan 
John D. Carmody 
Lewis P. Clephane 
Andrew B. Graham 
Henry 0. Hall 
Chas. Gantt Harris 

George C. H 



Owen, Chairman 

Frederic B. Hyde 
John G. Johnson 
W. P. Kyle 
J. Jerome Lightfoot 
Caleb C. Magruder, Jr. 
H. V. McAllister 
J. Henry Moser 
Henry W. Sampson 
W. D. Wirt 
OUGH, Assistant 




CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SHEPHERD 
MEMORIAL FUND 





$5 00 


Byron S. Adams 


25 00 


Jno. P. Agnew & Co 


10 00 


T. H. Anderson 


10 00 


J. W. Babson 


10 00 


Charles B. Bailey 


25 00 




1 00 


William Ballantyne& Sons 


10 00 


Barber & Ross 


50 00 


W. E. Barker 


25 00 


Conrad Becker 


20 00 


C.J. Bell 


100 00 


Samuel Bensinger 


10 00 


E. Berliner 


25 00 


John Biddle 


50 00 




20 00 


H. L. Biscoe 


10 00 


Thos. Blagden 


100 00 


Henrv P. Blair 


10 00 


S. R. Bond 


5 00 


Scott C. Bone 


10 00 


G. W. Boyd 


5 00 


C. A. Boynton 


10 00 


Bradbury Piano Co., W.P. 




Van Wickle 


100 00 


J. H. Breslin 


100 00 


Brightwood Park Asso., 




Wm. McK. Clayton.... 


25 00 


E. F. Brooks & Co 


5 00 




25 00 




25 00 


S. Thomas Brown 


50 00 


Aldis B. Browne 


25 00 


W. B.Bryan 


5 00 


J. F. Bundy 


5 00 


Cash 


1 00 


John T. Chaney 


5 00 




10 00 


C. B. Church 


20 00 



W. A. H. Church $5 00 

D. B. Clarke 25 00 

Theo. H.R.Clarke 1 00 

Mrs. Annie M. Clephane.. 100 00 

Walter C. Clephane 50 00 

Meyer Cohen 10 00 

H. Y. Colton 5 00 

B. Constantine 5 0G 

Geo. F. T. Cook 10 0a 

Geo. W. Cook 5 00 

Robert A. Cook 5 00 

G. G. Cornwell & Son .... 10 00 

D. Coughlin 2 00 

W. V.Cox 25 00 

J. B. G.Custis 20 00 

J. H. Crawford 25 00 

J. D. Croissant 10 00 

Samuel Cross 20 00 

S.W. Curriden 10 00 

William E. Curtis 10 Ofr 

Wright Curtiss 5 00 

D. C. Fire Department 27 60 

R. H. Darby 10 00 

E.G.Davis 10 00 

Madison Davis 20 00 

W. Riley Deeble 10 00 

William O. Denison 10 00 

P. V. DeGraw 5 00 

Louis A. Dent 5 00 

T. J. Donovan 1 00 

Julian C. Dowell 15 00 

William F. Downey 25 00 

E. F. Droop 25 00 

H. Rozier Dulany 15 00 

Dulin & Martin Co 10 00 

G. T. Dunlop 100 00 

R. W. Dutton 5 00 

B. B. Earnshaw 10 00 

Chas. A. Eckstein 2 00 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 



Charles R. Edmonston $10 00 

John Joy Edson 100 00 

Samuel Elliott 10 00 

J. C.Ergood 10 00 

Henry Evans 5 00 

A. P. Fardon 25 00 

James J. Farrell 2 50 

JohnS. Farrell 2 50 

Geo. M. Fillmore 1 00 

Victor G. Fischer 10 00 

James E. Fitch 500 00 

C. A. Fleetwood 5 00 

Edith Fleetwood 2 50 

Sarah I. Fleetwood 2 50 

A. C. Floyd 1 00 

James H. Forsyth 10 00 

Percy S. Foster 5 00 

Charles P. Freeman 1 00 

EL \V. Fuller 10 00 

N. P. Gage 5 00 

E. M. Gallaudet 25 00 

Gait Bros 100 00 

W. M. Gait & Co 50 00 

Isaac Gans 5 00 

Ferdinand Gawler 2 00 

Joseph Gawler 10 (X) 

Gibson Bros 25 00 

Andrew Gleason 50 00 

William A. Gordon 10 00 

Karl Graff 5 00 

C. C. Graham 1 00 

A. S. Gray 1 00 

E. N. Gray & Co 100 00 

G. VV. Gray 10 00 

Bernard R. Green 10 00 

A. Gude&Bro 20 00 

Teunis S. Hamlin 10 00 

Hamilton & Colbert 50 00 

R. N. Harper 10 00 

Geo. H. Harries 25 00 

Ha venner Baking Co 50 00 

Paul Havenstein 1 00 

W. 1'. C. llazen 10 00 

F. J. Heiberger 10 00 

W.G.Henderson 10 00 

C. M. Hendley 10 00 



J. Whit Herron $5 00 

C. Heurich 225 00 

F. S. Hight 10 00 

J. G. Hill 25 00 

Newton Hill 2 00 

C. J. Hillyer 100 00 

House & Herrmann 25 00 

Geo. F. Huff 30 00 

P. M. Hughes 5 00 

Thomas Hyde 50 00 

FrankHume 20 00 

Frederick Imhof 100 

Chas. Jacobsen 5 00 

B. T. Janney 5 00 

John F. Jarvis 5 00 

Annie E. Johnson 25 00 

Chas. S. Johnson 5 00 

E. W. A. Jorgensen 50 00 

Judd & Detweiler 20 00 

S. Kann Sons & Co 100 00 

D. J. Kaufman 10 00 

Rudolph Kaufmann 25 00 

S. H. Kauffmann 500 00 

Victor Kauffmann 20 00 

Thos. T. Keane 25 00 

J. R. Keene 5 00 

H. A. Kelly 2 00 

J. B. Kendall 25 00 

E. J. Kimball 5 00 

Richard Kingsman 20 00 

Mrs. S. B. Kittle 1 00 

M. A. Knapp 10 00 

Hervey S. Knight 10 00 

W. A. Knowles 1 00 

George M. Kober 10 00 

William Lamborn 1 00 

T. A. Lambert 25 00 

J. B. Lambie 20 00 

Thos. E. Landon 5 00 

C. A. Langley 10 00 

Tolbert Lanston 10 00 

Lansburgh & Bros 10 00 

R. M. Larner 10 00 

Chas. E. Lewis 1 00 

J. E. Libbey&Son 25 00 

Littlefield, Alvord & Co.. $10 00 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 



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A. Lisner 25 00 

Mary S. Logan 5 00 

Jno. S. Loud, U. S. A 2 50 

D. Loughran 10 00 

J. W. Lyons 10 00 

John McElroy 10 00 

Daniel McFarlan 25 00 

W J McGee 10 00 

McGill & Wallace 25 00 

James H.McGill 25 00 

C. N. McGroarty 1 00 

Edith Shepherd Mcllween 1 00 

H. B. F. Macfarland 50 00 

John P. Miller 5 00 

Mackall & Maedel 5 00 

John H. Magruder 10 00 

W. F. Mattingly 200 00 

Henry May 20 00 

S. N. Meyer 5 00 

Francis Miller 5 00 

John Miller 25 00 

W.S.Montgomery 5 00 

F. L. Moore 20 00 

Lewis B. Moore 1 00 

Mark W. Moore 25 00 

Thoa. P. Morgan 10 00 

S. T. G. Morsell 100 00 

W. B. Moses & Sons 100 00 

Frank A. Munsey 200 00 

Daniel Murray 5 00 

Geo. F. Muth & Co 10 00 

A. B. N 1 00 

Natl. Elec. Supply Co 10 00 

James Nolan & Sons 10 00 

John H.Nolan 10 00 

Crosby S. Noyes 1,000 00 

F. B. Noyes 100 00 

Theo. W. Noyes 100 00 

T. E. Ogram 10 00 

Owen O'Hare 100 00 

James W. Orme 50 00 

James L. Owens 5 00 

James F. Oyster 10 00 

R. E. Pairo 25 00 

Myron M. Parker 100 00 

Jos.Parris 10 00 

Geo. W. Pearson 25 00 



R. Ross Perry $100 00 

Frederick Pilling 35 00 

Robert Portner 100 00 

Samuel J. Prescott & Co. . 10 00 

J. E. Rankin 10 

E. E. Rapley 25 00 

W. H. & W. W. Rapley.. 75 00 

R. R. Rapley 25 00 

Richard Rathbun 5 00 

John C. Rau 10 00 

Chas. Rauscher 5 00 

Frank K. Raymond 2 00 

O. S. Reans 5 00 

F. R. Reeside 10 00 

Hugh Reilly 10 00 

C. B. Rheem 25 00 

Chas. W. Richardson 20 00 

Richardson & Burgess 25 00 

W. F. Roberts 10 00 

C. B. Robinson 5 00 

T. E. Roessle 50 00 

Cuno H. Rudolph 25 00 

Rudolph & West Co 50 00 

Saks & Co 25 00 

F. T. Sanner 10 00 

E. G. Schafer & Co 25 00 

Edward S. Schmid 5 00 

Chas. Schneider 10 00 

J. F. Schneider 1 00 

Edgar M. Shaw 10 00 

N. H. Shea 10 00 

F. L. Siddons 10 00 

Thos. W. Sidwell 10 00 

G. G. C. Simms 2 00 

Henry K. Simpson 10 00 

C. G. Sloan & Co 10 00 

J. H. Small & Sons 25 00 

R. S. Smith 1 00 

Thos. W. Smith 100 00 

William R. Smith 10 00 

Smoot, Coffer & McCalley 10 00 

E. H. Snyder & Co 10 00 

Ellis Spear 10 00 

W. R. Speare 25 00 

W. E. Speir 5 00 

Louis H. Stabler 2 00 



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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 



D. J. Stafford $10 00 

O. G. Staples 50 00 

O. O. Stealey 10 00 

E. J. Stellwagen 100 00 

A. H. Stephenson 10 00 

Eugene E. Stevens 10 00 

L. H. Stevens 250 00 

Chas. G. Stone 10 00 

M. L. Story 5 00 

Mary W.Story 1 00 

A. T. Stuart 10 00 

C. L. Sturtevant 5 00 

J. R. Sutton 2 00 

G. W.F. Swartzell 25 00 

R. H. Thayer 10 00 

Chas. W. Thompson 1 00 

('has. G. Thorn 25 00 

William Tindall 25 00 

Geo. Truesdell 50 00 

Tyler & Rutherford 25 00 

W. H. Veerhoff 10 00 

John F. Waggaman 100 00 

1'.. 11. Warner 100 00 

S. Waters 5 oo 

Weaver Bros 10 00 



Geo. B. Welch $10 00 

Jos. I. Weller 10 00 

M. I. Weller 25 00 

O. W. White 5 00 

John B. Wight 25 00 

Walter R. Wilcox 10 00 

C. C. Willard 100 00 

Henry A. Willard 100 00 

H. K. Willard 10 00 

W. .Mushy Williams 10 00 

A. A. Wilson 50 00 

John M. Wilson 25 00 

J. Ormond Wilson 25 00 

J. B. Wimer 25 00 

W. A. Wimsatt 10 00 

Simon Wolf 25 00 

C. E. Wood 2 00 

Henry F. Woodard 10 00 

W T oodward & Lothrop 500 00 

William C. Woodward. ... 10 00 

Howard S. Wyman 25 00 

Walter Wyman 25 00 

Chris. Xander 10 00 

Anna P. Yarrow 10 00 

Elphonso Youngs 5 00 




FINANCIAL STATEMENT 



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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 

Stateme?it of the Shepherd Memorial Fund from, September, 1902, 
to November 18, 1909, by C. f. Bell, Treasurer. 



Total amount of subscriptions received $9,858.10 

Interest received on bank balances 578.76 

Receipts from lumber 18 00 

Total expenditures as per vouchers $10,192.67 

Printing memorial 262.19 

$10,454.86 $10,454.86 



USES?. ° F C0 "GRESS 

IIIIIIMIWI 



PRESS OF 
LAW REPORTER PRINTING 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 



